Tag Archives: Cabbagetown

Local residents & Metro United Church welcome Syrian family

Eric Morse — While Gov. Gen. David Johnson was convening Ministers and national non-profits at Rideau Hall Dece.1, a small group of community workers and volunteers called Community Matters was gathering in the quieter surroundings of St. James Town to ...

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John Sewell’s book and how he and friends saved Toronto (Video)

John Sewell provides an insider’s account of 12 years when Toronto was transformed by activist citizens and high-rise developments. By the mid-1990s Toronto was well on the way to being Canada’s laraget and most powerful city, but all this “progress” ...

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70-year-old Cabbagetowner to cycle to Mexico for charity

Mark O’Neill — Not many people kick off their eighth decade with a 2,500 mile (4,000 km) cycling adventure, but that’s Cabbagetowner John Murtaugh’s big birthday goal. He wants to raise at least $25,000 for his favourite charity, Amistad Canada. ...

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Sustainable, walkable neighbourhoods since 1914: museum

Eric Morse — The year is 1914. David Adams leaves his home at 255 Sumach St. each morning, walks north, and then a block east to the southeast corner of River and Gerrard streets where he works as an enameller ...

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